31 stories by "Dean Yannias"
We follow them from week one, when they are reading the script for the first time and devising backstories for their characters; to week two, when they start acting with each other, scripts …
His way into the story is through an elderly Cockette, Juju (played by Ansloan), reminiscing to a young student (Bryan Andrew Lambe) who is doing research on the group. The student then take…
... if almost all of what we call our "culture" were suddenly lost to us, how would we create it anew? This is the premise of Anne Washburn's ingenious and sort of brilliant play Mr. Burns, …
The title James Cady's Hamlet might sound pretentious or vainglorious, but Jim Cady, the director, really does deserve his name on the marquee for this show. The words are Shakespeare's, but…
But nobody cares about the plot. It's just the scaffolding for a manic run of gags and physical comedy and song and dance and a little audience participation.
LaBute has the best ear for colloquial conversation—in a certain stratum of society, at least: office workers, city dwellers, factory guys, not too rich, not too poor.
Here, they have rescued the musical version of My Favorite Year from the brink of oblivion.
When Rooster talks to his son or to his son's mother or to an abusive stepfather, you see how good a writer Butterworth can be.
In today's post-Edward Snowden America, if a man from the government showed up at your door and asked for your help in conducting surveillance on your best friends, you'd probably tell him t…
The more I think about Man of La Mancha, the more impressed I am by the achievement of Wasserman, Leigh, and Darion. And of Paul Ford (an Albuquerque legend, directing his first musical) and…
Director Amelia Ampuero and her excellent cast have roasted this old chestnut into something quite flavorful.
This production is very good in almost all respects. As I have come to expect from the Adobe Theater, the set (by Brian Hansen and Antonia Cardella), the props (Nina Dorrance), and the costu…
Despite the fact that all four major Chekhov plays are alluded to, it is not a pastiche or a parody of Chekhov, but resolutely contemporary and American and even somewhat touching. V
If all you know is the movie (and isn't that all that anyone knows now?), I think you will be surprised by the play, and you'll have the fun seeing live theater too.
The new version by the Irish playwright Brian Friel feels not like he's dusting off some fusty old thing, but like a contemporary play.
I don't know if there's a way to get the younger generation interested in musicals like The Pajama Game, but I'll try: See this show, no matter what your age. You'll have a good time.
And you should see it, for the high production values and so you can be singing "If I Loved You" and "You'll Never Walk Alone" for the next week. Myself, I can't get the "Carousel Waltz" out…
In his 1972 book Memoirs, Tennessee Williams says that when people ask him which among his plays is his favorite, "I either say to them, 'Always the latest' or I succumb to my instinct for t…
It's a New York City play, but it could be anywhere in America. Jackie has just gotten out of prison after a two year stint upstate, is visiting his cokehead girlfriend Veronica back in the …
Should you give up this crazy idea of being an artist and go for the money instead? Isn't it time to settle down, or will you keep plugging away at a career in which the odds are not in your…
Chekhov subtitled it a comedy, but should we take him at his word, or was he being ironic?
You can't tell from the title, but the play is about Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the month of October 1866.
I thought I was going to hate this show, David Mamet's November, but I ended up having one of the most laugh-out-loud enjoyable nights at the theater in recent memory.
The play is directed by the author, and she has brought together a good cast and crew to actualize, I presume, her vision of what she had written.
I thought I knew just about everything there is to know of the Greek myths until I saw this production of Mary Zimmerman's adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
